I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.1 with Compiz enabled. I would like to disable the behavior where the workspace switches if I scroll my "mouse wheel" (vertical scroll part of my laptop trackpad). The vertical scroll part of the trackpad extends a little left of where it should and when I move the mouse around on the desktop there's some unexpected switching. My apologies for this being unclear, but I can't figure out search terms to find my answer. Thanks!

JECHO

August 31st, 2008, 07:11 AM

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.1 with Compiz enabled. I would like to disable the behavior where the workspace switches if I scroll my "mouse wheel" (vertical scroll part of my laptop trackpad). The vertical scroll part of the trackpad extends a little left of where it should and when I move the mouse around on the desktop there's some unexpected switching. My apologies for this being unclear, but I can't figure out search terms to find my answer. Thanks!

Sounds like you need to change your key bindings for the workspace switcher in the ccsm

moonlitaura

August 31st, 2008, 10:53 AM

Thanks for your help with that! I disabled Viewpoint Switcher and the problem stopped.

kirillosipov

November 3rd, 2008, 11:32 PM

Can anyone explain how exactly can a complete newbie disable workspace switching with the mouse wheel? At the same time I like switching with CTRL+ALT+Arrows combination

Thanks in advance,
Kirill

benfw

November 26th, 2008, 12:28 PM

Can anyone explain how exactly can a complete newbie disable workspace switching with the mouse wheel?

kirillosipov,

I haven't tried this myself yet, but I can paste instructions from another thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=632418):

For the beginner, here are the steps to disable the ability for the scroll wheel to change workspace in Compiz.

Select the Desktop category.
Click on the Viewport Switcher icon
Click on the Edit icon next to Button5 (Move Next entry),
and change the value to "None".
Click on the Edit icon next to Button4 (Move Prev entry),
and change the value to "None".

Scroll wheel will no longer do a "Move Next" or "Move Prev".

Hope that's helpful: if not, the instructions may need updating for Intrepid.

Ben

Loafers

September 29th, 2009, 06:38 AM

kirillosipov,

I haven't tried this myself yet, but I can paste instructions from another thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=632418):

Hope that's helpful: if not, the instructions may need updating for Intrepid.

Ben

Thanks!

jim.hatley.tech

October 5th, 2009, 09:57 AM

Thank you so much - it seems really obvious now, but this was driving me crazy! I was looking through all the wrong settings in CompizManager...